William Sedgwick

• Name	William Sedgwick  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I23340	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Maj. Gen. Robert Sedgwick,   b. Bef 6 May 1613   d. 24 May 1656, Jamaica (Age > 43 years)
  Mother	Joanna Blake   d. Aft 1657, Norwich, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F14038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Stone,   b. Abt 1645   d. Aft 1695 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1666  [2, 4]
  Divorce	1673  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Sedgwick,   b. 1667, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 24 Mar 1735, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F14033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Identified by Savage as a son of Maj. Gen. Robert Sedgwick; identified by Anderson and others as a husband of Elizabeth Stone; identified by Goodwin as the father of Samuel Sedgwick who married Mary Hopkins. Birth and death dates unknown. Savage states that "he had probably been ruined in morals by serving in the army of England." His wife Elizabeth Stone successfully sued him for divorce on grounds of abandonment. He is variously reported to have died of the plague in Jamaica, or in Boston shortly upon returning from the West Indies.

  
  

• Sources

  [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S3044] Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts by Nathaniel Goodwin. Hartford: F. A. Brown, 1856. [S1699] McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines by Selim Walker McArthur. Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1964.